I’ve written in great detail in the past about the origins of cigar box juggling. The genre started with wooden block tricks in Japan and spread to the rest of the world, eventually being done with cigar boxes or wooden boxes. One of these original tricks is not well-known, but very entertaining. I refer to it as the cigar box …
The Tragic Story of Léa d’Asti
(Haz clic aquí para español.) The following story is about Léa d’Asti, a juggler, tightrope walker, and Music Hall artist in Paris. She was born Léa Laforge and died voluntarily on March 7, 1905 by gas asphyxiation in her room. Her life was not documented, only the press published short articles about her death. Parisian newspapers speculated about the reasons …
Kitty Traney – Juggler and Animal Trainer
Kitty Traney is most definitely an obscure name in juggling history, despite being a talented and successful performer. Not much is known about her other than what can be gleaned from newspaper clippings. Despite sometimes being billed as English or French, she was actually a German whose real name was Katrina Tolcsmitt-Kilhauer. She was originally a ballet dancer, and then …
Hoop & Soccer Juggling by Alin Ruiz from Mexico | IJA Tricks of the Month
My name is Alin Ruiz. I am from Mexico and I currently live in Pachuca, Hgo. I have been practicing juggling for 12 years. I started at a renowned school in Torreón in 2012 and my last training was on the platform for jugglers Aliadxs de la gravedad in the generation 2021. My training in these years has been multidisciplinary …
Youna: New Information and Photos
Nine years ago, I discovered a juggler about whom I’d never heard. His name was Youna. The following is a review of what I learned then with additional information, newspaper clippings, and photos that I have found recently. The story of the juggler Youna is an amazing and mysterious one. Youna was born in Japan to Episcopal missionary parents from …
The Hands-On Corner of The Museum of Juggling History
When I give tours of the Museum of Juggling History to other jugglers, they invariably want to handle many of the props on display. In all but a few situations, this is possible. Exceptions do exist, such as a very fragile Anthony Gatto childhood club and a mercury-filled self-lighting candle invented and used by Salerno, but they are few and …
300 Articles on eJuggle
(Haz clic aquí para español.) For the past 7 years I have had the honor of writing for the best juggling magazine in the world: eJuggle, the magazine of the International Jugglers Association (IJA). I started as a juggling hobbyist, writing thoughts, ideas, and empirical research on a blog I created for free on Tumblr. I was inspired, of course, …
Rings Juggling by Emmanuel Boisse from Canada | IJA Tricks of the Month
Hi! My name’s Emmanuël! I’m from Montréal Québec. I learned to juggle in high school and the passion was so strong I couldn’t stop unless my health made me! I always thought I’d become a juggling teacher at some point so I developed a lot of introspection to discover the secrets of the discipline. It made the journey even more …
An Interview with Paul Cinquevalli
(Haz clic aquí para español.) With some tricks I have practiced for an hour every day for six months before I have achieved any kind of success with them. Paul Cinquevalli. Cinquevalli, considered to be the juggling superstar, gave a lot of personal details to journalists and people who were interested in his artistic career. From this we can …